The Attorney's General of 15 states and the District of Columbia have filed a brief in the US District Court for DC arguing that President Trump's proposed ban on military service by transgender people is unconstitutional, against the national interest and harmful to the transgender community.

Our military should be open to every brave American who volunteers to serve.

--Maura Healy, Massachusetts

The American Principles Project has displayed that they have none. The Washington conservative think tank, fearful of losing the race between Danica Roem (D) and Robert G. Marshall (R) in Prince William County has decided that it needs to attack Roem on her gender identity.

A robo call has been rolled out:

The National Center for Transgender Equality has released its survey results for the state of Rhode Island. The numbers are from 2015, but state specific-results have just been released.

The poverty rate for the general population of Rhode Island is 14.3%. For transgender residents, the poverty rate is 35%.

Hector Balderas, the Attorney General of the state of New Mexico, sent a letter yesterday to US Attorney General Sessions in response to Sessions' memo issued last week that said no federal civil rights laws protect transgender people from discrimination at work.

Sessions called the interpretation a "conclusion of law, not policy," and said the move should not be construed to condone mistreatment of transgender people.

On Wednesday, October 4, the Department of Justice issued a memorandum stating that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender employees in their places of work. In the memorandum, Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote, "Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se, including transgender status.